Homegrown Music Festival

The Homegrown Music Festival is an annual community celebration of the original and diverse music of Duluth, Minn. and its surrounding communities. What started in 1999 with five acts has matured in its 20th year to an eight-day community-wide local music, arts and cultural extravaganza.

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A Winter Downpour

A Winter Downpour

Alberto Serrano Rivera launched A Winter Downpour 16 years ago in St. Cloud as an acoustic solo project. It’s been a four-piece post-punk Duluth band for a full decade now. “We like to say we play down-tempo indie rock with a sad-bastard sound carved out of long Minnesota winters,” Serrano Rivera says. Other members of the band are guitarist Paul Connolly, drummer Ken Nyberg and bassist Kevin Zak. The band’s most recent album is 2017’s Oh, This Pleasant Lake, eight tracks of ominous indie rock.